Students' Magazines A G Noorani IT is surely about time that the independence of editors of students' magazines is explicitly recognised. It is true that the publishers are the authorities who run...
Civil Liberties
Amnesty International and India A G Noorani DOES the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, mean to continue Indira Gandhi's petulant policy towards Amnesty International? Judging by its latest Annual Report...
of power, in coalitions or all-party governments, to strengthen the political and economic management of new ethnic, community and caste assertions? We run away from the concept because we pattern...
The Sway of Censorship A G Noorani IT is remarkable how confidently the state in India proceeds to stop the flow of information to the citizen. It is too brazen for words. The inconvenience, let...
Ban on Information A G Noorani "COULD the government deny the press access to all public institutions and prohibit interviews by all government employees? Could it find constitutional footing by...
A G Noorani THAT there should be some norms for ministers' trips abroad no one can deny. As far as the Central ministers are concerned, the Prime Minister's authority as head of the Council of...
unlikely that any one else would have the op Deaths in Police Custody portunity of inflicting injuries. The presum ption should, of course, be discretionary and A G Noorani rebuttable so that...
Right to Invite Foreign Scholars A G Noorani THE curbs On the visits to India of foreign scholars is now a decade and a half old. Its absurdities are known to all who are concerned with the matter...
The Terrorist Act A G Noorani THE Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985 is a wholly unnecessary and menacing piece of legislation and is a precursor to a perhaps even worse...
No Remedies against Police Torture? A G Noorani HOW long will the Indian legal system remain without any worthwhile remedies against the practice of torture by the custodians of law and order...
Legislation on Phone-Tapping A G Noorani THE Interception of Communications Bill introduced in the British House of Commons recently deserves careful study in India. As the White Paper on the...
went on excommunicting everyone from the 'socialist' camp. Of course he was not the only one to do this. But he did it on a scale which can produce only megalomania in the end. There is a little...
Book-Banning: A Form of Book-Burning A G Noorani THE Maharashtra government's decision to ban Mihir Bosete able work "The Agha Khans" deserves to be condemned by any citizen concerned with the...
India, the UN and Torture A G Noorani ON December 10, 1984, Human Rights Day, the UN general assembly adopted by consensus, "without vote", a new 'CW vention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman...
with lotteries too, fake and otherwise, including the political! Footnote: And talking of money, good and bad, Rajiv Gandhi has reportedly accepted and acknowledged a donation of ten million dollars...
